Millions of Americans are submitting their DNA to companies, like AncestryDNA, to find out more about their ethnic backgrounds. Here's what happens to your sample and the privacy rights you have over your data.

Half of the top 10 nonprofit pay packages in the Triangle belong to Duke University officials, with coach Mike Krzyzewski leading the way, according to a review of tax return data by The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer.

Former UNC President C.D. Spangler Jr. has died, the university system announced Monday. He was 86. The Charlotte businessman and billionaire led the public university system in North Carolina for 11 years, from 1986 to 1997. (No Audio)

It's now going to cost $200 a year to park at a Wake County high school. The $30 increase isn't sitting well with students such as Jimmy Cvetkovski, a rising senior at Millbrook High School in Raleigh.

University of North Carolina archaeologist Jodi Magness and her team discovered “unparalleled” and “revolutionary” mosaics in Israel that uncovered new clues about life in an ancient Galilean Jewish village; many depict biblical scenes.

Red4EdNC, a teachers' advocacy group, is asking educators to sign a "Declaration in Defense of North Carolina's Public Schoolchildren." The document, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, lists education grievances with the General Assembly.

Monica Jenkins, executive director of the three-year-old Duke Technology Scholars program sets students up with summer internships, houses them together and offers programming and mentoring to keep them in the gender-imbalanced field.

Harnett County science teacher Shawn Hicks had a close call with a lighting strike in Lillington, NC, while taking Facebook Live video of a storm he planned use in a lesson for students at Harnett Central Middle School.